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ethomaz on 23 February 2012

I liked the article and decided to share with the community... the comparison is interesting and impressive at the same time.

 

Gran Turismo 5 vs. Reality: Can You Tell the Difference?

Features Gran Turismo 5 February 21st, 2012 by Jordan

GTPlanet member Abraxas went on a trip to Austria and Italy last year, with a special goal: to visit and photograph some of Gran Turismo 5‘s most impressive Photomode locations in the real-world, then compare them to Polyphony Digital’s work.

The result is nothing short of incredible, as you can see in the 40 sample images from his trip below. He’s paired each photograph with a GT5 Photomode image taken from the same “virtual” location; the real photos are in the left column, and the game’s screenshots are in the right column.

Check out his complete gallery here in our forums, which features even more photos and Abraxas’ commentary on the different locations. He has also assembled another impressive collection of real-vs.-virtual car photographs which are not to be missed. Thanks, Abraxas, for sharing these images with our community!

Siena / Piazza il Campo

 

San Gimignano

 

Red Bull Hangar 7 (Austria)

 

The Abbey of San Galgano

http://www.gtplanet.net/gran-turismo-5-vs-reality-can-you-tell-the-difference/

 



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PullusPardus on 23 February 2012

Thats pretty impressive, I did like the attention to detail they put on areas that I visited in real life, some of the things are way too accurate.



Jay520 on 23 February 2012

I think GT5 has detail superior to real life.



Galaki on 23 February 2012
Jay520 said:
I think GT5 has detail superior to real life.

*Puts on Sony glasses*

Yup. More real than real life to me, too.



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Ajescent on 23 February 2012

The ones with the "Wrong gear" logo are all GT5...ma'rite?



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Jay520 on 23 February 2012
Galaki said:
Jay520 said:
I think GT5 has detail superior to real life.

Yup. More real than real life to me, too.



I know right! It's amazing how the PS3 caught up and surpassed real life!

I think this marks the beginning of a revolution. A revolution where the PS3 is considered real life and real life is considered sub-par. I don't think I can ever go outside again due to boredom of lackluster graphics.

Porcupine_I on 23 February 2012

so THAT's what they spent all this time on

you have to admire the Japanese attention to detail



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’

sub-zero-TM on 23 February 2012

Wow that was nice!



Dr.Grass on 23 February 2012

That looks amazing and all, but it just doesn't look like that to me when I'm playing. As someone who hyped GT5 to my Forza playing Xbuddies, I was quite disappointed with the visuals.



Kynes on 23 February 2012

Really nice work there, they could have improved texture quality with more VRAM, but lightning is the main culprit here of the subtle "fakeness". A great lightning engine is the hardest thing to do, good textures or polygon models are much easier to create.